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Hello, I am doing a 3D underwater cave build for my pea puffer in a 20g tank. I am buildling an AIO sump style filter for it before I do the 3d background. However, I am not familiar with returns. I am used to the return that hangs over the back like this...

Hello everyone, I'm switching from a "wet/dry" style sump to a full wet sump (freshwater). My media bags in the trickle area for the current one are bio balls, some sponge that I cut-up to help seed the tank, old substrate that I had in there that originally helped seed the tank, and some...

Hello, I was offered a free 20 gallon long aquarium. The previous owner had ruined the top brace with a heat lamp. I was wondering if anyone on here has ever removed the top brace and not had issues with it blowing out. I have to drive a half hour to get it, so if it won't work, I do not want...

Hello everyone, I picked up another spiny eel :) I currently house 1 peacock. I was at the fish store when I saw this small spiny eel, so cool. They did not know which one he was, just that they bought him as a spiny eel. I've attached a photo if anyone can help me narrow it down. He kinda...

So, I upgraded my light to see if I could get better/faster growth out of my plants. My question will be length of time, bc of on this light there is a ramp-up & down cycle. IT has a 15min warm-up process so it doesn't go just lights full on. Then an hour of sunrise brightness (not sure of...

Hello everyone (most likely Colin), I just ordered a new light that should be brighter than the last one I was using. I'm having slow growth from my plants, so I'm going to try to increase the light intensity. The light I bought has a dimming function, so if it ends up causing algae I can...

Hello everyone, Just adopted a new friend last night when I went to pick up a new Amazon Sword. I apologize for the less than great photo, but can you guess what this little one is? :fish2: Tiny hint: That's white on his fins, that should make it pretty easy.

Hello All, I am currently considering adding a co2 system for my 75g planted tank. Still doing a bunch of research before making the plunge. I am currently lightly to medium planted, but my plants are reproducing and I want to add more in the future. So what I've seen so far is that you...

Hello everyone, So I have a new guy in here, been in the tank roughly 2 weeks. I know exactly what he is, but can you guess!?

Hello everyone, so I have invested into some plants. I currently have amazon frogbit (about 2 weeks I believe) and it has grown and replicated tremendously quick with nice beautiful roots. I just added water wisteria (it was fully submerged when I bought it from the aquarium store, in a pot -...

Hello everyone, I got an Anubias from the petstore over the weekend. It was actually kind of weak once I got it home, and a leaf for 2 fell off. I believe they had the rhizome too far down in the gel stuff, but I could be wrong. Either way, each night a leaf has disappeared. I chalked it up...

My first batch of Amazon Frogbit and it started rooting, very exciting. May not be much to some experienced people, but I am loving it already! Those plants in the far off are artificial (you can probably tell) and will be taken out eventually when I start putting in some plants that don't...

Just a great picture of my juvenile horseface loach!

Hello everybody, In the past, I've just thrown in rocks after scrubbing them and then boiling them for a half hour and letting them cool down. I've never had an issue with any rocks hurting my fish or tank. Now I was researching more into it and a lot of people say there are stones not to use...

Hello everyone, I am getting ready to stock my 75 gallon. I have a 20g that is going to be getting transferred over, still currently in my "seeding" part of my 75g. In my 20g I have 8 or 9 Danios, a horseface loach, and 2 clown plecos. I want to add a rainbow shark to my 75g with all of...

So I bought a used 75 gallon, used but looked in good shape. I filled it with water and noticed on the back left side that the tank had a TINY pinhole leak. So I marked it and drained it down below that point and it is holding water below that point. Now on the inside of the aquarium, the...

So I got a 75 that has an older style sump system in it that I am going to use for the time being until I can upgrade to a new sump down the road. The pump that it came with is super weak (265gph) for a 75 gallon tank (not sure why he had it so low or if he actually used it). So I am looking...

Hello everyone, I'm looking & hopefully buying a 75g with a sump this weekend. It has one of the older style J-hook HOB overflows on the back. Has anyone modified these to make them more like CPR HOB overflow? I really don't want to throw in another $80-150 on a CPR HOB overflow if I can...

Hello everyone- most likely Colin_T, When you have sand in your aquarium, where do you place your aerator? I would assume that you should not put it under the sand for obvious reasons. I have always put my aerators in the substrate in the past, but not sure what to do with it when sand is...

Hey everyone, I am going to be doing a new 75 gallon tank soon, and I'm pricing up my sand substrate. I am going to do 75% white, 25% black. I can find nice white filter sand for $26 (current price). However, when I'm looking for black sand, its a million dollars a pound (give or take a...

Hey everyone I was just curious if anyone stores their aquarium water for usage during water changes? I could see it for maintaining a constant water condition before entering the aquarium, and any modifications can be made to the source water instead of directly to the aquarium. Plus, it...

Hello, I am adding a water softener in my home to help with the lime scale issues that I have, my water is decently hard for being in town. I'll give background, then ask the questions. I currently house a tropical tank, 20 gallon, 9 assorted danios, a horsefaced loach, and a clown pleco. I...

Hello everyone, I am going to be setting up a new African Cichlid tank, I used to have a 55g one about 8 years ago. I recently have gotten back into the hobby and want to do another one. So, this time around I'm going to be keeping my eyes out for a drilled tank (I have always wanted one, I...

Hello all, I use the Marineland Power Filter 200 and currently use the Marineland Filter Cartridges. I just bought some media bags and some Seachem Matrix bio media. I will start using that this weekend. I eventually want to quit using the filter cartridges and switch to just a filter piece to...

Hello everyone, So I have been in a battle with this very dark green algae. I was using plant substrate and live plants for awhile, but the algae just got too bad and I took the live plants out and switched to artificial, but I still cannot get the algae under control. Within 4 days its...